The Chef Rules the Last Days-Chapter 71 - 69 Departure to Pingshui County

71: Chapter 69: Departure to Pingshui County

71 -69: Departure to Pingshui County

The swelling receded for an instant before it began to rise again, until it filled his entire body.

The boy’s eyes snapped open at once, the whites taking over his sockets, his skin a ghastly shade of blue-black, a monstrous howl erupting from his mouth.

He was tied to the bed, thrashing violently, the freshly stitched wound split open instantaneously and his internal organs spilled out, creating a bloody scene.

“No!” Amidst the girl’s cries of pain, Jianxiong smashed the boy’s head with a punch.

After dealing with the body, he slipped the remaining tea into the alcohol when no one was looking and gruffly tossed it to the two medical students, saying, “Forget about the dead, take care of these first.”

The two fumbled to catch it, starting to disinfect the wounds of their companions.

When he returned to his room, he received two bottles Su Mo had sent over.

“How are things below?

We’ll head to Pingshui County first thing in the morning.

Take this,” she said.

Jianxiong shook his head as he received them, speaking in a hoarse whisper, “It was useful, but only for a moment.

He still got infected and died.”

Su Mo nodded, having anticipated this, yet she still wanted to try.

She patted his arm, “Go get some rest.”

Back in the room, Lu Chen pulled her over and said coldly, “You stay here tomorrow.”

Without thinking, Su Mo shook her head and firmly said, “I level up my system by killing zombies.

I must go.”

“You’re still hurt.”

“I know my body best,” Su Mo argued, pulling down his hand to hold his ice-cold palm, saying earnestly, “I will strive to grow stronger and fight alongside you.”

An eerie silence fell between them.

Eventually, Lu Chen agreed, “Okay.”

He pulled the girl into his arms, his chin resting on top of her head as he whispered, “Take care of yourself.”

Once afraid of her getting hurt, now the thought of her being in danger seemed to scare him.

Blushing, Su Mo asked softly while buried in his chest, “Lu Chen, do you like me?”

The man let go of her, coughed lightly, and flicked her forehead with disdain as he scanned her from head to toe, finally resting on her chest as he said coldly, “Have you fully developed yet?”

“…” Su Mo, who had asked the question feeling rather shy, didn’t expect such a mood-ruining response!

Mimicking Lu Chen’s disdainful sneer, her round eyes meaningfully glanced at his crotch area, “I might not be fully developed, but you’re not much better off.”

“Hmph,” she tossed her head and climbed up to the top bunk to sleep.

She didn’t see the amusement brimming in his deep blue eyes.

The two spent the night without another word.

As dawn was breaking, they finished packing.

Su Mo took out a revolver from the System Bag and secured it in her thigh holster before putting it back.

She filled a bottle to the brim with Energy Tea and Healing Tea and packed it in her backpack.

At the prison gate, a police car was already waiting, and with Jianxiong being the largest, he was in charge of driving.

“Mo Yan has woken up, he’ll take charge of the order today,” Li Qian said as he got into the car with a gentle tone.

“We’re going to pick up the vehicle,” Lu Chen said as he tossed the bags into the police car and pulled Su Mo into the backseat.

“What vehicle?” Zhao Changsheng asked from the passenger seat, while giving Su Mo suggestive looks.

As Su Mo recalled the event, she avoided Zhao Changsheng’s gaze and patted the back of the driver’s seat, “Jianxiong, you didn’t lose the keys, did you?”

“They’ve been in the bag the whole time,” he replied.

The prison’s iron gates swung open as Jianxiong slammed on the accelerator and shot out.

The prison wasn’t far from the supermarket in the small town, but the number of zombies on the road had clearly increased, just as Ai Yang had said.

The town had been cleared by Shen Du’s people once before, but now groups of three to five zombies would sporadically emerge.

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“They’re all moving in packs,” Su Mo peered outside the window, her worries mounting by the moment.

More than a dozen zombies were already following their car, moving noticeably faster than when they were in Black City.

Jianxiong swerved to avoid a zombie that was about to collide with them, and slammed on the brakes to stop in front of a clothing store.

He tossed the car keys to Lu Chen and said, “You go get another car, Zhao Changsheng and I will take this police car.”

Zhao Changsheng glared unhappily at Jianxiong and tried to get out of the car, “I’ll go with Momo.”

“You stay here,” Su Mo flatly responded to her, following Lu Chen out of the car.

“Fine, have it your way,” Zhao Changsheng’s hand retracted from the car door handle, a look of displeasure across her face.

Grasping the Tang Blade in her hand, Su Mo passed by the clothing store, where she saw the rotting, stinking corpses of a mother and child lying on the floor.

She had once covered their faces with clothing, but now their exposed white bones were visible.

They rushed into an alley where five zombies immediately pounced at them.

No longer shuffling about, the zombies had hands that had turned into claws, their nails glinting with a lethal black sheen.

With deft movements, Su Mo sidestepped a swinging claw and used her blade to sever the reaching hand, quickly beheading the zombie in front of her.

“So fast!” It wasn’t just their movement, even their attack speed had increased.

Lu Chen threw a gun to Li Qian from his Space, his Ice Blade forming and piercing through a zombie as he ran to fetch the car.

Li Qian took aim and fired quickly, as his mental map indicated several zombies rapidly closing in: “Hurry and get in the car, another ten are coming from behind.”

Lu Chen unlocked the car and killed another zombie before climbing into the driver’s seat.

The moment Su Mo and Li Qian finished off the zombies and got into the car, ten fast-moving zombies turned into the alley.

Their mouths were dripping with coagulated blood, snapping open and shut as they lunged towards the car.

“Bang, bang, bang”

Some of the zombies hit the front of the car while others clawed at the side doors, their sharp nails scratching at the windows with a piercing noise.

“Hold tight,” said Lu Chen as he started the car and floored the gas, charging out.

The military vehicle, built to withstand impacts, plowed through the zombies to force its way out.

A female zombie, with only half a head remaining, was knocked onto the roof of the car.

She flailed her claws, continuously scratching at the roof.

The high-speed vehicle wove down the road but couldn’t shake her off.

Su Mo decisively rolled down the window, brandishing her blade as she leaned halfway out.

The wind tousled her hair as she braced against the roof, her eyes meeting the zombie’s blank gaze.

Lu Chen glanced at the rearview mirror and tightened his grip; the speed of the car dropped in an instant.

The female zombie’s exposed jawbone, dripping black blood, snapped viciously towards her.

With a forceful thrust of her blade into the zombie’s mouth, Su Mo flung it off the roof using all her strength.

The zombie rolled off the back of the car and tumbled onto the ground, and only then did she pull herself back inside.

Their car, with better performance and speed than ordinary cars, soon caught up with Jianxiong’s vehicle; Zhao Changsheng even popped her head out and threw a flirty wink at Su Mo.

On the road to Pingshui County, there was a winding mountain road, narrow enough to only accommodate two cars side by side.

Jianxiong slowed down the police car he was driving, choosing to follow the military vehicle.

Their car wasn’t crash-resistant, and such a place was prone to accidents.

Outside the guardrail were groups of mountains….